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The term "God Above God," then, means to indicate the God who appears, who is the ground of being, when the "God" of theological theism has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. [56] While on the one hand this God goes beyond the God of theism as usually defined, it finds expression in many religious symbols of the Christian faith, particularly ...
He believed that God is above history, that he makes commands upon human beings, and that all history is under the control of this God. Niebuhr borrowed often from Paul Tillich's notion of God. He was comfortable describing God as Being-itself, the One, or the Ground of Being. In this regard, Niebuhr held something of a middle ground between ...
In addition to Søren Kierkegaard, Christian existentialists include German Protestant theologians Paul Tillich, and Rudolf Bultmann, American existential psychologist Rollo May (who introduced much of Tillich's thought to a general American readership), British Anglican theologian John Macquarrie, American philosopher Clifford Williams, French ...
Tillich, I believe, said doubt is a necessary part of faith. Lamott has said that the opposite of faith is certainty. This idea didn’t originate with either of them.
Just as Paul told the Hellenists (falsely) that Christianity’s God was the logos – the two concepts are really entirely different – Tillich is saying, in effect, “you can become humanists because your God of theism and my ‘God above the God of theism’ are both named God.”
Famous people quotes about life. 46. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926) 47. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and ...
Paul Tillich held that God is the ground of being and is something that precedes the subject and object (philosophy) dichotomy. He considered God to be what people are ultimately concerned with, existentially , and that religious symbols can be recovered as meaningful even without faith in the personal God of traditional Christianity.
Paul Tillich#God as the ground of being; Brahman in Hinduism, the metaphysical ground of all being; See also. Theistic personalism This page was last edited on 8 ...